Re: [PATCH] better isearch support for complex input methods

From:

Stefan Monnier

Subject:

Re: [PATCH] better isearch support for complex input methods

Date:

Tue, 03 Apr 2001 15:39:57 -0400

> > From: Karl Fogel <address@hidden>
> > Date: 03 Apr 2001 13:48:34 -0500
> >
> > However, this can only work if C-w knows to behave differently when
> > looking at a multibyte Chinese character than when looking at some
> > other kind of text. And of course, it can't just be for Chinese:
> > Emacs would have to recognize a general classification of "characters
> > that are themselves words" in various lanuages. Can it do this?
>
> Well, how about if it always treated entire charsets in the same
> manner? For example, all Chinese characters would be treated as
> words. We can surely classify characters by the character set they
> belong to, even when the internal character representation is changed
> to be based on Unicode.
That's what I was thinking. It's probably not 100% correct, but
should be fairly close. Also it should be fairly easy to list
the relevant charsets since I would expect that all the ideogram-based
charsets are 2-byte charsets and we don't have thousands of those, do we ?
Stefan